The Crucifixion
Abstract/Contents
- Description
- Master of Saint Francis (Assisi, c. 1260) Crucifixion, with the swooning virgin supported by two women companions on the left, and on the right the young John the Evangelist with Saint Francis standing slightly behind him (175 x 140 mm). This iconographic motif appears to be without precedent in thirteenth century representations of the subject, where if Francis is present at all, it is as a diminutive figure kneeling at the foot of the cross. The cross forms the T of the introductory text of the Canon of the Mass, “Te igitur”. The Master of Saint Francis is the anonymous author of a cycle of frescoes with scenes from the life of Saint Francis in the Lower Church in Assisi, which were the basis for the frescoes of the same subject by Giotto in the upper Church in the early 1300’s. Large crucifixes on wood panels by the same artist appear in the National Gallery in London, the Louvre in Paris, and Galleria Nazionale in Perugia. This page is from a Missal, presumably used in Assisi less than fifty years after the death of Saint Francis in 1226. It is the artist’s only known work on parchment, and suggests the existence of a scriptorium at the monastery in Assisi.
Description
Type of resource | mixed material |
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Place | Assisi |
Date created | [ca. 1260] |
Language | Latin |
Creators/Contributors
Artist | Master of Saint Francis |
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Subjects
Genre | Illuminations (painting) |
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Bibliographic information
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/hs435fk9741 |
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Location | Item: 02 |
Location | M2223 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Collection
T. Robert & Katherine States Burke collection of late medieval and early Renaissance miniatures, 1175-1510
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